Destroy Sayings and Quotes

Below you will find our collection of inspirational, wise, and humorous
old destroy quotes, destroy sayings, and destroy proverbs, collected over the years from a variety
of sources.

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The most effective way to destroy people is to deny and obliterate their own understanding of their history.

George Orwell

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If God doesn't destroy Hollywood Boulevard, he owes Sodom and Gomorrah an apology.

Jay Leno

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Men are destroyed for being rebellious, and women destroy themselves by failing to be rebellious. Unless you can make that next jump to either getting along with people or resisting people, you are ultimately destroying yourself.

Chuck Palahniuk

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What wise men established in 100 years, the fools demolish in 2 days.

Anonymous

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Nothing else so destroys the power to stand alone as the habit of leaning upon others. If you lean, you will never be strong or original. Stand alone or bury your ambition to be somebody in the world.

Orison Swett Marden

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To build may have to be the slow and laborious task of years. To destroy can be the thoughtless act of a single day.

Sir Winston Churchill

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The spirit of envy can destroy; it can never build.

Margaret Thatcher

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If at first you don't succeed, destroy all evidence that you tried.

Author Unknown

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Do I not destroy my enemies when I make them my friends?

Abraham Lincoln

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To banish imperfection is to destroy expression, to check exertion, to paralyze vitality.

John Ruskin

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One to destroy, is murder by the law, and gibbets keep the lifted hand in awe, to murder thousands, takes a specious name, 'War's glorious art', and gives immortal fame.

Edward Young

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That man can destroy life is just as miraculous a feat as that he can create it, for life is the miracle, the inexplicable. In the act of destruction, man sets himself above life; he transcends himself as a creature. Thus, the ultimate choice for a man, inasmuch as he is driven to transcend himself, is to create or to destroy, to love or to hate.

Erich Fromm

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One leak will sink a ship, and one sin will destroy a sinner.

John Bunyan

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If it can be destroyed by the truth, it deserves to be destroyed by the truth.

Carl Sagan

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I demolish my bridges behind me...then there is no choice but to move forward.

Fridtjof Nansen

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Whoever conquers a free town and does not demolish it commits a great error and may expect to be ruined himself.

Niccolo Machiavelli

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Destroy or be destroyed-there is no middle way! Let us then be the destroyers!

Mikhail Bakunin

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Never try to destroy someone else's life with a lie when yours can be destroyed with the truth.

Anonymous

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What does not destroy me, makes me stronger.

Friedrich Nietzsche

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We can destroy ourselves by cynicism and disillusion, just as effectively as by bombs.

Kenneth Clark

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Hatred, which could destroy so much, never failed to destroy the man who hated, and this was an immutable law.

James A. Baldwin

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Others may hate you. But those who hate you don't win, unless you hate them. And then, you destroy yourself.

Richard Nixon

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If people destroy something replaceable made by mankind, they are called vandals; if they destroy something irreplaceable made by God, they are called developers.

Joseph Wood Krutch

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It is not defeat that destroys you,it is being demoralized by defeat that destroy you.

Imran Khan

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Destroy the seed of evil, or it will grow up to your ruin.

Aesop

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It destroys one's nerves to be amiable everyday to the same human being.

Benjamin Disraeli

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You can chain me, you can torture me, you can even destroy this body, but you will never imprison my mind.

Mahatma Gandhi

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When man meets an obstacle he can't destroy, he destroys himself.

Ryszard Kapuscinski

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If only there were evil people out there insidiously committing evil deeds, and it were just simple, we could separate them from the rest of us and destroy them. But the line dividing good and evil cuts through the heart of every human being. And who among us is willing to destroy a piece of their own heart.

Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

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You do not destroy an idea by killing people; you replace it with a better one.

Edward Keating

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It's our nature. We destroy. It's the constant of our kind. No matter the color of blood, man will always fall.

Victoria Aveyard

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To destroy a people, you must first sever their roots.

Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

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